


“Everything always goes in cycles, but I feel like people who come see our shows are rowdy as hell. “Art is always a backlash to itself,” Smith says when asked if perhaps younger listeners may be gravitating back to rock’n’roll at a time when pop music feels more sleek and clean than ever. Their fall tour in support of Data Doom will visit some of their biggest venues yet, including the 600-capacity First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia and the 1,000-capacity Warsaw in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since Sizemore and guitarist Josh Menashe formed Frankie and the Witch Fingers as a house party band in Bloomington, Ind., in 2013, the quartet has gradually become a heavy hitter in underground rock, punk, and psychedelic circles.
